Re: SuSE 9.0

[<larsrc raeder dk>]

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> -- Lars Clausen <lars@raeder.dk>
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>> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 23:44, Dan C wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've used Dia on SuSE Linux for two years.
>>> I know there's a problem with the fonts on SuSE 9.0.
>>> Is there a proven method to work around this font issue?  Am I the
>>> only person  on the planet using SuSE 9.0 that can't read text in Dia
>>> anymore?
>>
>> It's the combination of Dia 0.91 and Pango 1.2.4+ that triggered a
>> hidden bug.  It's fixed in Dia 0.92.2, but it doesn't seem to have
>> made it into SUSE 9.0.  Hopefully 9.1 has it, otherwise it can be
>> downloaded from the Dia web page www.gnome.org/projects/dia.
>
> Actually, I've had font problems in SuSE 9.0 with later
> versions of 0.92.2; I'd always figured it was an issue
> with the collection of 5+ Gnome lib's I had to compile
> in order to get dia complied on the 9.0 distro.
>
> My current plan was to see how well 0.93 worked on 9.1
> week after next (i.e., after it comes out :-).  If
> anyone is willing, I'd be happy to test 9.0 with some
> set of consistent lib's that compile on 9.0.

If you're having problems with the gnome libs, don't use --enable-gnome. 
The gtk libs, on the other hand, do need installing, but should be there
and all on SuSE.  I'm using SuSE 9.0 myself and didn't have to compile
anything for Dia, just installed the various GTK devel packages.

-Lars